Word: sackful
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...want to do now is hit the sack," he said...
...that Artie was the average American soldier. Like his G.I. cousins, Sad Sack and Private Breger, he was maladjusted, maladroit and wonderfully incompetent and unreliable. His grousing, griping and goldbricking were a vicarious safety valve for other G.I.s. Now Author Brown has introduced Artie to U.S. civilians in a collection of 51 stories. Brown's earlier best-selling A Walk in the Sun won acclaim as a serious work, but Artie Greengroin, Pfc. is not likely to be hailed as a great comic work...
...payment: by 1892 the U.S. Government had paid a quarter of a million dollars in damages. But even this left 2,298 horses still unpaid for. The case wore on, collecting exotic language. Original claimants had names like Dewey Distribution, Take Her Leggins Off, Lizzie Eagle Louse, Henry Tobacco Sack and George No Belly. Their heirs had names like Susie Sounding Side, Johnson Scabby Face, Bennie Bear Lies Down...
...evening the new chum's uniform hung on him like a sack. He was run over by the crew of the foretop in a rush for hammocks and, when he staggered to the fo'c'sle with his own bursting hammock, was coldly asked by an officer if he was "carrying guts to a bear." After making up the hammock with non-regulation sheets as large as small sails, he fell out of it twice...
...eight for breakfast; thence to Bio D, from there to Ec A, and finally to Dr. Finer's Gov 1 lecture; lunch in the House; sculling on the Charles most of the afternoon; dinner in the House; studied until 11--marginal cost is quite incomprehensible--than hit the sack...